Just.Ask - A multi-pronged approach to question answering

International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Mendes, Ana Cristina ^a   Coheur, Luísa ^a   Silva, João ^a   Rodrigues, Hugo ^a  

^a INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

answer extraction; evaluation framework; passage retrieval; Question answering; question interpretation

Indexed keywords

ANSWER EXTRACTION; EVALUATION FRAMEWORK; PASSAGE RETRIEVAL; QUESTION ANSWERING; QUESTION INTERPRETATION;

GOLD;

RESEARCH;

EID: 84874396998     PISSN: 02182130     EISSN: 17936349     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218213012500364     Document Type: Article

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